Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany's cinema industry as strong as that it already has over the press; it gave Goebbels virtual ownership. In March, even before the switch in directors, an anonymous group bought control of UFA from the Hugenberg group. Berlin film men insisted last week that the real owner of UFA and Tobis is the Franz Eher Publishing Co., which in turn publishes the Nazi news-organ Volkischer Beobachter, and of which Adolf Hitler is supposed to be a partner...
...whip and drew away. At the end of the race. War Admiral was going easily, almost two lengths ahead. Pompoon was second, eight lengths ahead of Mrs. Ethel Mars's Reaping Reward who nosed out the rest of the field for third place. To War Admiral's owner went a prize of $52,050. Ill in Philadelphia, he was represented by Trainer Conway, who accepted the gold cup from Kentucky's Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler...
...Kentucky Derby was one race which Man o' War didn't win. One reason for this was that in 1920 Owner Riddle did not consider the Derby important enough for Man o' War to enter. Last week, Owner Riddle's Derby winner was the first horse he had ever started in the race. Last week's Derby victory was the second for a son of Man o' War: Clyde Van Dusen's in 1929 was the first. It was also the second for Jockey Kurtsinger, who grew up in Louisville, got spanked regularly...
With his brother Alva, owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball club, Charles Bradley was heir to a vast real-estate and Great Lakes shipping fortune. As a banker he early became associated with the Van Sweringens in real-estate, later in rail roads. When the Vans started building Cleveland's Terminals Building in 1927, blunt, outspoken Mr. Bradley was asked to supervise activities. He moved his office from the Union Trust Co. to the site of the excavation. Asked by newshawks what his plans were, Charles Bradley replied: "First thing we'll do is raise hell." The building...
Three generations later Annabelle appears as the descendant of the gypsy princess and proceeds to enliven the plot with her own liaisons with the Irish family. Henry Fonda, owner and trainer of Destiny Bay, candidate for the Derby, co-stars with Annabelle who also possesses a promising horse. Wings of the Morning. From this point the story itself is partially lost amid these attractions of Annabelle's personality and the beauties of the Irish countryside which are set off to great advantage in technicolor...